The hidden setting that saves your phone battery (and lots of power)
The other weekend, my son Nicky and I were tramping along the trails at Muir Woods. 
Have you ever been? It’s a magical sort of place. The towering redwoods are a far cry from the grey buildings of London that I used to call home, so the whole experience felt pretty surreal.
At one point, Nicky scrambled up onto a fallen redwood trunk, arms stretched wide, grinning like he’d just conquered Everest. Naturally, I pulled out my phone to capture the moment…and wouldn’t you know it?
The screen went black. Dead as a doornail. Father of the Year, over here.
Our phones seem to give up the ghost at precisely the wrong moment, don’t they? And yet, half the time they’re draining power even while just loafing about in our pockets.
There’s an easy way to be smarter with your battery life, but most people don’t know how to do it. So as your friendly neighborhood power nerds 
we thought we’d share…
Turn on Low Power Mode (if you’re on iPhone) or Battery Saver (if you’re on Android).
Or if you don’t want it on all the time, here’s a middle ground: Set up an automation for low power mode only when you hit a percentage, say 30-40%.
Check these graphics for how to do it:
Here’s why this matters:
Your phone sips instead of gulps—stretches out the battery so you charge less often.
Fewer charges mean less energy use overall. Every time you charge, it uses resources and produces waste, so multiply this by millions of us and suddenly we’ve made quite a dent in unnecessary power consumption.
You’ll save yourself from the dreaded “1% panic mode” while waiting for an Uber or attempting to capture a core memory for your kid.
At OE Electrics, we’re the first to admit: technology and manufacturing aren’t the greenest industries on the planet. That’s why we’re big on being mindful about using power in smart, responsible ways. Low power mode is a super simple way we can make a difference.
So if you’ve never tried low power setting, give it a whirl. Take 60 seconds to set it up now and see how long until your phone needs a charge.
It may not be as thrilling as watching a seven-year-old balance triumphantly atop a giant redwood, but it’s satisfying all the same.
